About the Authors

Louise Farrer

Louise.Farrer@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Helen Christensen

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Kathleen M. Griffiths

Affiliation Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Andrew Mackinnon

Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

HC and KG are authors of the web based treatment programs BluePages (bluepages.anu.edu.au) and MoodGYM (moodgym.anu.edu.au). LF has received a postgraduate scholarship from the Australian Research Council. KG has received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and receives support from numerous sources (list of funders upon request, for conference support) to deliver conference presentations on the MoodGYM and BluePages programs. HC has received funding from industry partner Lifeline for consultancy following completion of the research involving the submitted work and receives support (list of funders upon request, for conference support) to deliver presentations on the MoodGYM and BluePages programs. HC and KG receive royalties from editing a book containing information about the MoodGYM and BluePages programs. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF HC KMG AM. Performed the experiments: LF. Analyzed the data: LF AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC KMG AM. Wrote the paper: LF HC KMG AM.